The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories

Certain houses like certain persons manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. In the case of the latter no particular feature need betray them; they may boast an open countenance and an ingenuous smile; and yet a little of their company leaves the unalterable conviction that there is something radically amiss with their being: that they are evil.

Contents:

• The Empty House
• A Haunted Island
• A Case of Eavesdropping
• Keeping His Promise
• With Intent to Steal
• The Wood of the Dead
• Smith: An Episode in a Lodging House
• A Suspicious Gift
• The Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New YorkBlackwood
• Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp